Medium is an extremely popular blogging platform for both newcomers and expert tech-savvy bloggers. I've noticed the serious SEO related issue with using it as your main blogging tool. Read on if you are curious how Medium hurts your internet brand and what's the alternative.

I've noticed that many programming blogs I read don't implement certain simple SEO techniques, and bloggers could be missing valuable traffic opportunities. I will describe a couple of search engine optimization tips which can improve your technical blog's SEO ranking and search results position in 2018. I will cover topics like Google's Featured Snippets, best rendering speed tips and social media meta tags.

Service Objects are not a silver bullet but they can take you a long way in modeling your Ruby on Rails app's domain logic. In this blog post, I will describe how I usually work with service object pattern in a structured way. I will also cover a simple testing in isolation with mocked services layer.

According to (a bit exaggerated) Pareto principle, 5% of your Rails app endpoints could account for 95% of performance issues. In this blog post I will describe how I improved a performance of my Rails application’s bottleneck endpoint by over 500% using a simple Redis caching technique and a custom Rack middleware.

SSL protection is becoming de facto standard in web and mobile development. One potential problem is that website could be served via a secure SSL connection and still displayed as insecure by most of the modern browsers. It's enough that at least one of its resources is served without SSL. In this blog post, I will explain how to setup a simple Ruby and NGINX server to work as an SSL proxy for insecure content and describe some basic streaming techniques.

Domain names you own could be your most expensive to do list. What’s more a domain without a valid SSL will show up in all modern browsers as an insecure content. In this blog post, I will explain how to minimize the cost of owning multiple wildcard SSL-protected domains using Cloudflare and set them up with Github Pages, Heroku or NGINX.

In theory, you can run both Rails web server and Sidekiq process on one 512mb Heroku dyno. For side projects with small traffic, saving $7/month always comes in handy. Unfortunately when trying to fit two Ruby processes on one dyno you can run into memory issues and leaks. In this post, I will explain how you can limit memory usage in Rails apps.

I would like to share a simple productivity tip that probably helped me save thousands of keystrokes so far. I’ve been using this technique for a while now to maximize my laziness (productivity) during work and so, recently I wrapped it up in an easy to use Ruby Gem.